Materialist occultists

In late December last year I told Mr J Jonah Jameson and his drop dead gorgeous redattrice I'm done writing articles for their smashing occult magazine because I was all out of actual meaningful relevant topics for it. I considered I had written everything I was thinking of adding on this blog, containing helpful information concerning some concepts and notions of possible interest for occultists who want to make the best of their work by considering as many details as possible.

But recent events occurring at the periphery of the occult, that actually belong in another sphere altogether, have determined me to drop another article. While for the most part it's nothing but a critical rant, it does contain practical magical details at the end.

Article on house differences

Ho ho ho!

Una ragazza molto speciale, who should have her own blog but doesn't (uffa!), joins me as we close off the year with this article discussing the importance of house differences, especially in magical affairs. It aims to help people gain a better understanding of why magical work involving celestial forces is either endorsed or hindered depending on where the force of choice is located in the chart at the moment of ritual. 

For the sake of simplicity only planets are mentioned, but the same principles apply to stars and constellations, zodiac signs, even lunar mansions.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Pagan lunar mansion

My latest appearance on Mr Farrell's occult training blog is a collaboration with the good ol' pagan for a genuine lunar mansion talisman consecrated pagan style. I wrote the first half, which includes details about the mansion, the election itself, alongside additional info. Mr Sol Invictus added his muchly pagan style ritual.

This election is one time only so adjust your schedule in advance if you're interested in capitalizing on it. The election is unfortunately unavailable for those living in most of the western hemisphere.

Link to the article is to the left of the page, as usual.

Another astrology article

Mr Farrell's occult training blog contains another article written by yours truly. It deals with signs and houses, making a comparison between the two and pointing out similarities, but most of all, differences. It's something I've been guilty of for a while after I began studying astrology. You will also find it to the left of the page.

On another, somewhat related note, some sissy group from northern Italy calling themselves Fart Smelling Society or some other fucked up name have accused Mr Nixter of using AI to generate so many articles in such a short time. This implies my own articles are AI. 

Atttenzione sfigati! I know you're bunch of lame ass cosplaying fucktards fooled into believing you're being part of one big happy family who spend your money on feeding the fake news hog in charge of that whole charade. Paying 1500 euros for a wack tarot class speaks for itself when you can learn a great deal more for free from the lamest youtube vids on the topic. 

Void of Course article

Mr Farrell recently started a magical training blog to offer people practical information regarding Golden Dawn and Greco-Egyptian systems, as well as other important occult related topics. One of these topics is astrology, something he and una ragazza molto speciale have covered in this article.

I was asked to contribute with an article of my own, covering Void of Course. I've done so and it got published last week. It was beautifully edited by una ragazza molto speciale who deserves my full gratitude, and then some, for having allowed my trademark writing style to shine. It covers what the event is, its duration and implications in magical work, with added examples from horary astrology showing how it affects developments. The explanations contain certain details I've yet to discuss on the subject, either in my books, on blog posts or elsewhere. I think that by reading them one may consider the notion of broken dreams more in depth, especially since the Moon covers daydreaming as much as it covers nightly dreams.

All in all, it should be an insightful reading for beginners and more experienced alike, especially since I could come up with at least one example of a knowledgeable person selling astrological talismans made during VoC.

Words in bookstore

Magic Words is now in Treadwell's, London. Mr Farrell was approached by the people there recently and now you can find a number of my book's copies in their store.

Double trouble

Good ol' book writing obsessed Mr Farrell recently published his billionth book, Why Magic Fails. I wrote an example on that to accompany his book's arrival on the occult scene. 

I realized early on, ever since I heard of the future book title it would fit very well as a companion to my Words. The two complement each other nicely. My book debunks nonsense spread by self-important whatnots who project an image of knowledgeable gatekeepers onto others, while at the same time explains how magix works (including a breakdown on offerings and their role). His book addresses dimwitted nonsense loudmouth wannabes spread around, often through their dim minded followers, among other things. It does seo from a variety of angles, pointing out many possible causes for magical failure.

Both are published through Lord Manticore at accessible prices.

Hermetic Tablet 2024

After a lengthy hiatus Hermetic Tablet is back with more than a few authors having answered Mr. Farrell's call. This year's edition is filled with articles covering both practical and theoretical topics many interested and serious occultists will find helpful.

You can see from the table of contents many subjects have been addressed, from tantra to gamatria and from psychology to gamatria, these articles' applications can be manifold.

Hermetic Tablet once more

After some six years Mr. Farrell decided to release his Hermetic Tablet once more. This particular edition stands out because it also pays homage to the late Mike Magee and Jake Stratton-Kent, two people involved in specific occult fields well known for their knowledge of those particular areas.

Besides the articles written by the two occultists who now explore the vastness of the beyond, Mr. Farrell has gathered a plethora of authors to contribute to this year's edition. And then there's Señor Shaman and myself. Each author covers a different subject, from ancient magix to Kabbalah and from astrology to conjuring a demon, but the articles can be loosely grouped together in bunches by the occult areas whose different aspects each covers. Additionally, each author has an unique approach to the topic they're covering, unlike certain larger than life wannabes who regurgitated the same material as others in the past with the help of another's translation to come up with a book the length of one of these articles (or smaller) over the span of a few years (!!!).

The book will be published through Lord Manticore probably next week and I will post a detailed article to cover it when the time comes.

ASTERIA 2

Asteria Unveiled: Celestial mysteries revealed 

Has finally published by Lord Manticore. FINALLY!!!

This is the followup volume to Asteria, a work that branches out from its predecessor and expands on various applications of astrology in magick. Even though some concepts presented inside come with short explanations, the material requires people to be readily aware of it since it was explained in detail in Asteria. So if you are not familiar with those concepts you could read Asteria first or look up whatever information you require using various other sources when you come across it in the second book. 

Asteria Unveiled addresses both older concepts which it masterfully discusses in new ways, and newer ones which it thoroughly details, offering more than enough information for people to enrich their magical practices. There were cases where it was necessary to skip over most of the explanations and not because we're jerks or anything, but because they would require entire volumes and, truth be told, it would make a pretty much boring read anyway. As a result, we injected the text with highly concentrated small doses of explanations just so readers would understand the concepts presented. So although this book has less number of pages than Asteria, the highly concentrated doses of knowledge it contains would keep people busy for a long time.

Teaser 3

This is going to be the last teaser for the future book and it's going to be short. Here is the first one, then the second one. And I first announced this book in the article on the twelfth house.

Asteria Unveiled: Celestial Mysteries Revealed published by Lord Manticore House will be out on March 5. This will be my second work published by Lord Fluffball after Magic Words.

More details will be offered in a specific article after its publishing.

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

More on magical resistance

This is a follow-up to my previous article on the topic of magical resistance - what stands in the way of successful spells. I will be more specific in terms of details and explanations and for this reason I will address spells and rituals that employ planetary forces because many out there work exclusively with them (for some reason).

I have detailed the planetary dignities in this article and they should be considered by anyone who's doing planetary magick and wants to improve their results. By looking at those details we can see each of the seven classical planets becomes more or less stronger whenever it transits through certain zodiac sectors. Their strengths vary depending on each sector's type. It is a no brainer one would want to work with a planet when it's transiting through a sector in which it is very strong. But then...

Magic Words

>MAGIC WORDS<

FINALLY! ABOUT FREAKIN TIME! Supposed to be out 18 months ago...

Anyway, this magnificent piece of magical... NAH! This book of mine got published today by Lord Manticore. I published it independently earlier this summer and it got the attention of LM so I decided to remove it from amazon and awaited for it to be published elsewhere. I was told I needed to make some changes to the original because apparently it was going to hurt some people's feelings and make them cry so much they were prone to sue me and although I cared not about that, I reluctantly made the changes. It doesn't mean it's not going to irritate people and so on. And then I waited... and waited... and then I started cursing... and it finally came out at some point.

At any rate, this short book was written from my overall experiences in occult social media over the past five years or more. It addresses basic things that answer many repetitive questions I've encountered along the way from people who were in their early magical days, but not exclusively from them.

Geomantic figures in ritual

Unfortunately this is not some method on working magical operations with the geomantic figures. I for one do it following Scott's planetary rituals so use that coz it works very well.

It just so happens I was notified the other day my Star and Stone copy had arrived and I realized again that simply going through it during the editing process has allowed certain information from there to stick to me. Me (!!!), someone who's divination challenged. 

Anyway, my mind started making these weird associations this morning while I was waiting for the subway: how geomantic figures relate to a magical ritual. So, as stupid and useless as it might be, here it is.

Teaser

As mentioned at least a couple of times on this blog, yours truly is currently working on a future project alongside Señor Shaman and El Maximo Exponente de la Magia. The writing process is about halfway through and then I think the editing shouldn't take too long because it's being done along the way, so I expect it to be published sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed my creative juices won't fail me because I'd have to blast myself with some inspiration and I already have a full schedule!

In the mean time I managed to take a few screenshots of it and I'm sharing them as a teaser. At any rate, the book will be published by Lord Manticore House so keep an eye on the website in case you're interested!

The above is but the first of several charts and there's also pretty tables :)

Book review: Star and Stone

A short background is in order before reviewing Star and Stone: 

During the editing of Asteria, El Maximo Exponente de la Magia took it upon himself to teach me how to rub my dice... ahem! Geomancy. I told him several times I am divination challenged but instead of being discouraged by that, the illustrious Professor patiently assisted me in the learning process while drastically punishing me whenever I made mistakes: "You think with your weewee!" he kept saying. In my defense, those were readings about sex so... 

Anyway, I kept asking him to make videos on his YT channel to explain wtf he was trying to teach me because my mind works better by processing visual images of concepts. So to me it's useless I can understand every word of a sentence and the sentence as a whole because if my mind cannot create an image of the essence of that sentence... cannot compute. "No!" answered the grumpy Manticore, "no one learns geomancy from videos" he continued while grumpily instructing me onward. (Raise your hands if you want the meanie to keep posting woowoo videos!!! Hasn't posted in ages ffs!!! Carelessly keeps growing a beard instead...) I asked him to write a damn book about it several times, each time getting another grumpy "No!" because apparently "no one reads books on geomancy."